Granted, I could only use what colors I already had, which were red, tomato red, and cobalt blue, but I definitely would have added some different blues and perhaps cherry red if I had them available. Oh well.. I think I did quite well with what I had. Anyway, pictures!

A picture to show thickness (they've since been resealed and are less loose)

And then here is my first semi-successful attempt at a transitional! I almost want to put this in the show off sections just because I'm so damn excited I finally made one almost right

wtfffff.... I thought it was just facebook but none of my pictures want to show up right-side up on ANY website. That picture is saved right-side up on photobucket and on my computer, I have the tab open and I'm looking at it right now 0_o I don't get it.

So, what do you think? As far as color scheme, sealing, etc? These turned out pretty fuzzy and I found the loops harder/less neat because of how much more hair I used. I also had to use silky red for all of the blends, and the contrast in texture between that and the jumbo braid was a little weird to backcomb evenly.

Julia! You have shown so much improvement, it's been really fun to watch.
I love the shape of these. I saw one that maybe needed like a teensy bit tighter backcombing right in the middle, but it could easily have been the angle of the photo.

..::AtomicLox::.. wrote:Julia! You have shown so much improvement, it's been really fun to watch.
I love the shape of these. I saw one that maybe needed like a teensy bit tighter backcombing right in the middle, but it could easily have been the angle of the photo.

Love! Show off. Now.

Thanks so much to everyone >.< It always brightens my day to see everyone telling me I'm not failing

And just out of curiosity, which picture has the one that might need more backcombing? There is one dread that's bright red with a tomato red candy cane, and the tomato red ended up looking like a shadow and made it like the dread is really badly helixed :s At least in my opinion. So if it was that one thats why! If not I'd still like to know which one cause I'd like to improve on it!

And about the transitional... it DOES have a bump but it doesn't show up well in the picture... maybe less of a bump and more of a narrow part. I can feel it!

..::AtomicLox::.. wrote:Julia! You have shown so much improvement, it's been really fun to watch.
I love the shape of these. I saw one that maybe needed like a teensy bit tighter backcombing right in the middle, but it could easily have been the angle of the photo.

Love! Show off. Now.

Thanks so much to everyone >.< It always brightens my day to see everyone telling me I'm not failing

And just out of curiosity, which picture has the one that might need more backcombing? There is one dread that's bright red with a tomato red candy cane, and the tomato red ended up looking like a shadow and made it like the dread is really badly helixed :s At least in my opinion. So if it was that one thats why! If not I'd still like to know which one cause I'd like to improve on it!

And about the transitional... it DOES have a bump but it doesn't show up well in the picture... maybe less of a bump and more of a narrow part. I can feel it!

poxabomination wrote:
And just out of curiosity, which picture has the one that might need more backcombing? There is one dread that's bright red with a tomato red candy cane, and the tomato red ended up looking like a shadow and made it like the dread is really badly helixed :s At least in my opinion. So if it was that one thats why! If not I'd still like to know which one cause I'd like to improve on it!

The one with your hand under it... which could easily just look that way due to the shadow, cause in all the other pictures they're all solid-looking.

Ah the one with my hand under it was loose... I resealed them all since then, I had a hard time getting them sealed all the way through D: They were perfect and then overnight as they relaxed they got loose again so I had to seal a total of 3 times >.< This time I think they're good! Thank you ^-^

I am so, so sorry to necro, but these are fabulous, and your inspiration makes me smile. This single post has cemented my intention to become an active member of this community. When I saw that these were inspired by the plumage of a female eclectus (My mom is a parrot person!), I knew I was home. I'm currently wearing self-made Luna Moth dreads, and working on an Elephant Hawk-Moth set. So thank you very much for making me decide to come out of hiding! <3
And I promise that my first pointless necro will be my last.

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large -- I contain multitudes."